New names give way to stories, lives cut short in Orlando

As the names of victims are added to a City of Orlando public website, the world is slowly learning the true toll of an indescribable massacre.

Author:
Christopher Buchanan

Published:
10:12 AM EDT June 13, 2016

ORLANDO -- As the names of victims are added to a City of Orlando public website, the world is slowly learning the true toll of an indescribable massacre.

Now, the stories of the victims behind those names are beginning to emerge - stories cut short by a gunman claiming ISIS ties at a club in central Florida.

NBC news reports that Juan Ramon Guerrero was a homebody and student who had only recently come out to his family. Stanley Almodovar III was a cheery pharmacy technician from Massachusetts. Kimberly Morris was a cell phone store manager with an independent streak.

They were real people living lives that were cut shot in a hail of bullets. And they are just three of at 50 killed at the scene - a list that could grow as Orlando emergency workers strive to save the remaining 53 who were wounded in the attack.

But even as the reality of this horror continued to sink in with each new name, a country has come together not to heal the wounds in the hearts of those left, but to share those wounds and to make that first shaking, painful step forward into another day.

Mourners pay tribute to the victims of the Orlando shooting during a memorial service in San Diego, California on June 12, 2016. Fifty people died when a gunman allegedly inspired by the Islamic State group opened fire inside a gay nightclub in Florida, in the worst terror attack on US soil since September 11, 2001. / AFP / Sandy Huffaker (Photo credit should read SANDY HUFFAKER/AFP/Getty Images)